When a growing population and a surge in electric vehicle uptake signalled potential strain on the grid of a small town in Aotearoa (New Zealand), the regional utility embarked on an experiment with a smart grid software product to hold off costly hardware updates—with promising results.
Wel Networks, the utility serving residents in the coastal town of Raglan, conducted a pilot study to determine how distributed energy resource management software (DERMS) can maintain reliability when projected EV use threatens to exceed grid capacity.
EVs draw large amounts of power when charging, particularly at specific times of the day when many EVs are connected to the grid, such as during overnight charging,” writes Andy Miller, business development director at grid software company PXiSE, in an article for Power Grid International.
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